NEWS: FCD Reserve get demolished by Colorado Rapids Reserves + more 2:45 am Oct 5th

FC Dallas Head Coach Schellas Hyndman

On making early subs:

I thought we weren’t getting anything in the center midfield. Our idea was to put more pressure on the back four by going with some speed up front, and I thought Colorado did a good job bypassing the defense, so we weren’t getting much out of it. I thought we surprisingly played much better once we made the change. That was the bright spot coming into halftime. We’re down 1-0 but the bright spot was that we’re starting to get a little bit of the ball…

FC Dallas Reserve lost 5-1 to the Colorado Rapids Reserves on Sunday.  Quincy Amarikwa had a first half hat trick for the Rapids.  Ruben Luna netted the loan goal for FCD.  Ross LaBauex and Andre Akpan  netted the other two goals for Colorado.

The Rapids Reserves move to 3-5-1 on the season while FC Dallas falls to 4-4-0 in MLS Reserve League action. FC Dallas’ next Reserve League match is scheduled for Wednesday, October 5 against the Sporting Kansas City Reserves on the adidas Field at Pizza Hut Park…

There weren’t any post game quotes in the press release FCD sent out from panama… but this audio surface today. Check it out for Hyndman post game reaction after getting pounded 5-3.

From listening to him, it sounds like some crazy stuff was going on. “A greater defeat than we’ve ever had and I give our guys credit for having nine player on the field” and “In my mind there was not be anything we could do to come out with a win” just to mention two that caught my ear…

Despite a lineup shift to a 4-4-2 and the reunited wide pair of Brek Shea and Marvin Chavez, FC Dallas was once again held scoreless, this time by the Colorado Rapids. FCD has now been shutout in four straight games, a first in franchise history. FCD will need to score in the first four minute of their next game to avoid breaking the franchise scoreless mark (364-minutes).

Immaturity again played a role for Dallas as head coach Schellas Hyndman was forced to pull off the dynamic Jackson just 34 minutes into the game after an early yellow card…

FCD has released the training schedule this week and the club is taking a little break.

The team will be training Monday and Tuesday leading up to a reserve game on Wednesday at 10 AM on the adidas training field against Sporting KC.

After that the club is taking off Thursday to Sunday as their next game is Wednesday, Oct. 12 against the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park. That game is scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m. CT.

When fatigue is such a massive issue with a club, I have to think this break is a good idea…

After meeting in last season’s MLS Cup, FC Dallas and the Colorado Rapids are in control of the top two wild-card spots for this year’s postseason. The playoffs, however, are probably the last thing either team is thinking about.

Coming off yet another shutout defeat, Dallas hopes to avoid losing four consecutive league games for the first time in seven years Saturday night when it visits a Rapids team that is winless in seven weeks.

FC Dallas (13-10-7) owns an eight-point advantage over D…

FC Dallas will clinch a berth in the MLS Cup Playoffs this weekend…

if FC Dallas defeat Chicago (Oct. 12) AND
- New York loses or ties vs. LA Galaxy OR
- Portland and Houston tie (Oct. 14)

OR if FC Dallas tie Chicago AND
- New York loses to LA Galaxy AND
- there is a winner in the Portland-Houston game

FC DALLAS
at
COLORADO RAPIDS

DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK, Commerce City, Colo.
October 1, 2011
8 p.m. CT (FS-SW+)

REFEREE: Silviu Petrescu.
MLS Career: 35 games; FC/gm: 28.4; Y/gm: 3.9; R: 6; pens: 5
SAR (bench): Daniel Belleau;
JAR (opposite): Joe Fletcher;
4th: Paul Ward.

INJURY REPORT

COLORADO RAPIDS – OUT: FW Conor Casey (L achilles tear); DF Anthony Wallace (R knee arthroscopic surgery); PROBABLE: MF Jamie Smith (R hamstring strain / R calf strain); GK Matt Pickens (R groin strain)

FC DALLAS – OUT: DF Edson Edward (R knee ACL tear); MF David Ferreira (R ankle); QUESTIONABLE: DF Jeremy Hall (L ankle)
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
SUSPENDED: none

WARNINGS

SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: COL:Conor Casey, Caleb Folan, Brian Mullan, Sanna Nyassi … DAL: Daniel Hernandez

SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: COL: Ross LaBauex, Jeff Larentowicz, Pablo Mastroeni, Tyrone Marshall, Drew Moor, Wells Thompson, Anthony Wallace … DAL: Marvin Chavez, Jeremy Hall, Andrew Jacobson, George John, Zach Loyd

HEAD-TO-HEAD

ALL-TIME (52 meetings):
Rapids 17 wins (1 shootout), 63 goals …
FC Dallas 25 wins (2 shootout), 87 goals …
Ties 10

AT COLORADO (25 meetings):
Rapids 12 wins (0 shootout), 37 goals …
FC Dallas 7 wins (0 shootout), 35 goals …
Ties 6

The teams met for the first time since last year’s MLS Cup Final on April 8 of this year…

FC Dallas Lineup: Hartman, Benitez, Loyd, John, Ihemelu, Jacobson, Hernandez, Chavez, Shea, Jackson, Santos
(4-4-2, Jackson as striker)

FCD available subs: Seitz, Luna, Villar, Cruz, Stewart, Guarda, Castillo

Colorado Rapids Lineup: Pickens, Kimura, Wynne, Moor, Comminges, Mastroeni, Mullan, Larentowicz, Smith, Nyassi, Cummings

We talked a little last week about how outstanding the current state of the FCD Academy is, so this week I thought it would be worth looking at the prospects the program has produced in the last few years.

There is a ton of info here collected by a lot of people. Special thanks to long time reader Charlynn Helms who complied all this info and was willing to share it.

Let us once again recognize the amazing job Oscar Pareja is doing with this program…